Doctors Warn: Be Extra Cautious This Fourth of July, and Let the Experts Handle the Fireworks
June 29, 2026
This Fourth of July, Minnesota physicians are once again urging their fellow Minnesotans to leave the fireworks up to the professionals.
St. Paul Physician Named President of Minnesota Medical Association
September 22, 2023
Laurel Ries, MD, of Roseville, was installed as the Minnesota Medical Association’s (MMA) 157th president on September 21 during the association’s Empowering Physicians Conference.
Ries, a family medicine physician in St. Paul, has been very active with the MMA since she became a member in 2005.
She has served on the MMA’s Ethics & Medical-Legal Affairs committee, as well as acting as chair of its Public Health committee. She also took part in work for the Health Department’s Blood Lead Screening Guidelines for Pregnant and Breast-Feeding Women. Plus, she served on the MMA’s Executive Committee, Policy Council, Board of Trustees, Nominating Committee, Awards Committee and as an alternate AMA delegate.
Her term, which officially begins October 1, lasts one year.
About the Minnesota Medical Association
The Minnesota Medical Association is a non-profit professional association representing physicians, residents and medical students. With more than 10,000 members, the MMA is dedicated to being the indispensable and unified voice of physicians for advancing the practice of medicine, the profession and patient health in Minnesota.
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